Freeview NZ DTT will use MPEG 4 within an MPEG 2 transport stream for all SD and HD programming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(New_Zealand)"TVNZ said digital terrestrial will be broadcast in MPEG4 and satellite broadcasts will be in MPEG2. This means people who took part in the Auckland digital trial using terrestrial DVB-T MPEG2 receivers will need to change their receivers to DVB-T MPEG4 in order to receive terrestrial Freeview, once it is officially launched in March 2008."
You are correct that the wording is misleading. What they are really saying is that the DVB-S receivers used to receive DTH Freeview NZ do not have HD decode capability built in, and apparently there are no plans to build new ones.
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Canard alert: "HD programming will not be available on Freeview's satellite platform since it was launched using MPEG2 technology."I'm not sure if this sentence is intending to mean that MPEG-2 has somethingto do with rocket science, or if they are asserting that MPEG-2 transport streams can't handle HDTV. Either way, it's plainly wrong. John Willkie
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